Poet’s Corner: Dispatches from the Winter Games

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Priscila Uppal is poet-in-residence for the Canadian Athletes Now Fund during the Olympics and Paralympics. Through dispatches and poetry for the LRC, Priscila will blog about her experiences there and at the Arctic Games in Grande Prairie, Alberta. She is the editor of The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories and author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-nominated Ontological Necessities.

Mar 09

Hand Games

I’ve got a coin in my hand.
I’ve got a button in my hand.
I’ve got a toothpick in my hand.
I’ve got bubblegum in my hand.

I’ve got a message in my hand.
I’ve got an omen in my hand.
I’ve got fire in my hand.
I’ve got desire in my hand.

I’ve got a river in my hand.
I’ve got an eagle in my hand.
I’ve got mountains in my hand.
I’ve got an avalanche in my hand.

I’ve got a wedding in my hand.
I’ve got a baby in my hand.
I’ve got a century in my hand.
I’ve got death in my hand.

I’ve got nothing in my hand.
I’ve got something in my hand.
I’ve got something in my hand.
I’ve got nothing in my hand.

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